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Fourteen clocking Sixteen on the way to big Tesco

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So many Discworld fans say things like “I relate most to Vimes” to “I see myself in Granny Weatherwax” but stop lying, every other Discworld fan I’ve met is clearly channelling Constable Visit the Infidel With Explanatory Pamphlets in their enthusiasm to whip out reading order charts and explain to strangers why they should convert to Omnianism read Discworld. 

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I feel like this is a sentiment that a lot of people can relate to, particularly if you’ve passed say, 30 or so.

There’s so much pressure in the modern world to do and be and act in certain ways, and I think a lot of us spend our youth either trying desperately to conform or beating ourselves up about all the ways in which we don’t.

My experience is of reaching a certain age and starting to feel free of that. Finding an acceptance of who I am as a person - it might not even be a *love* of who I am, exactly, but it’s an acceptance of “you know what, I’ve lived this long and this is the person I am.”

Obviously we all try to be better in small, personal ways, but reaching that level of “yeah, this just is who I am” feels quite freeing.

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Nobody touch me 😭🥹

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grug hate two factor authentication. first grug have to remember password. then grug have to point out which cave painting has birds. now they want grug to hunt and gather new thing called numbers. grug won’t do it grug miss the bird paintings grug was getting pretty good at birds.

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The Ironheart trailer is officially OUT!

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Just seen the trailer for Ironheart and I’m immediately both excited and sad.

Excited because it looks clever, fresh and interesting.

Sad because I feel like I already know this will tank, just like all the other female/POC/female POC led series.

I seriously hope I’m wrong.

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So my mother, who was not American and is no longer with us, was a big proponent of “if you think someone has something good going on, say it”. And would, frequently, to complete randoms in the street. You’d turn around and she’d have struck up a conversation based entirely on her complimenting someone’s bag or dress or top or shoes.

Now that she’s gone I often think to myself when I’m out and about that I need to “be more mum” and so I too tell people that I like their bags or T-shirts or skirts.

Although I will say I met up with her once for a day out and mentioned that a woman on the escalator in front of me had the best perfume, and mum said “oh but you should have told her”, and I had to explain that compliments are nice but telling someone you don’t know that they smell nice is probably crossing a line.

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

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You’re telling me that Tony Stark, a genius billionaire and businessman, did not trademark the name ‘Avengers’ throughout the entirety of the infinity saga?? LIAR.

That man knew there were action figures of him out there. He was getting a slice of that cake

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I read that Sebastian Stan didn’t get why Bucky’s arm was going through the dishwasher - he didn’t think it was funny at the time.

The thing is - it’s *not* funny, not in the way I guess they probably thought it would be, but I think it *is* necessary.

The guy has gone from a missing limb, to a limb that isn’t really his own, to *another* limb that isn’t really his own - he’s had to come to terms with it and probably associates it with the winter soldier.

Acting so domestic and cavalier with it isn’t *funny* it’s showing the progress he’s made with accepting who he was; who he is and who he can be if he chooses.

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Yelena decides to keep the guinea pig she rescued from the lab. Since he was a victim of the Sentry project as well, and he has the right colouring, she names him Sentry

After the mission she does research on all the things she'll need for her new guinea pig, and learns that they're very social creatures and may get depressed without a friend (much like someone she knows), so she goes out and adopts another guinea pig. He's all black. Do you know what she names him?

✨ Void ✨

So now the Thunderbolts have two guinea pigs called Sentry and Void. Yes Bob loves them like his own children

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Not entirely sure how it all works out just yet; but fairly confident that Bob is the next in line to inherit the endless optimism and slobbery affection of one Pizza Dog aka therapy on four legs

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Bucky casually taking the lead in looking out for Bob, but it’s low key and slow, because whilst he absolutely gets what it’s like to be unstable, powerful and feared for it, what he *doesn’t* know is how to be the adultier adult friend.

Oh, he used to, back in the day when Steve weighed 90lbs soaking wet and could pick a fight with a guy twice his size in two seconds flat, but those days are long gone and besides - Bob is a lot of things, but he ain’t Steve.

No, he’s far more like Bucky - supernaturally souped up and more than a little afraid of what lies within him. Unsure if this tremendous power can ever be used for good, or if he’s doomed to live out his days as damaged property.

But… as the days, and then the weeks and eventually the months go by, and Bucky settles into this unasked for role of Avenger, he starts to learn that he’s got something that can help. That can bring a positive change to the world.

And when Bob looks back at him, he can see something else of himself reflected there, too.

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Kind of into the idea of Bob just running into Peter a few times around New York - no super stuff, just guys getting sandwiches at the local bodega, casually becoming friends over a few months. Both completely unknowing of this whole other side to the other; but just connecting in a totally regular way. After all; they both know what it’s like to be alone.

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It’s no bad thing 🥰

feeling myself dragged back into the marvel fandom but my brain isn’t the same shape as it used to be so I need to figure out how it’s gonna look